Presbyterian Church, Waringstown
Presbyterian Church, Waringstown
Waringstown Presbyterian Church on Mill Hill, Waringstown, County Down, is a Grade B+ Italianate church designed by Charles Lanyon and opened in 1853. Imported records list the denomination as Congregational; the congregation is Presbyterian Church in Ireland.
- Location
- Waringstown, County Down
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- County
- County Down
- City / town
- Waringstown
- Address
- Mill Hill, Waringstown, County Down, BT66 7QL
- Postcode
- BT66 7QL
- Built
- Opened 1853; congregation from 1846
- Architect
- Charles Lanyon
- Denomination
- Congregational Church
- Grade
- B+
- Style
- Italianate
- Materials
- Basalt rubble with Dungannon sandstone dressings; rendered west front
- Grid reference
- J 106 553
- Opening hours
- Tuesday to Thursday 10am to 2pm.
- Access
- Level access to the main areas. Level access throughout. Accessible toilets in church
Overview
The congregation’s history records Presbyterian worship in Waringstown from 1846 and the opening of the present building in 1853. Lanyon, architect of Queen’s University Belfast, designed a west front with two ornate towers. The Northern Ireland Stone Database describes an Italianate rendered front with sandstone plinth, columns and cills, a central alcove with side doors flanked by Doric columns, Venetian-style round-arched ground-floor windows, and square Italianate towers with open arcades and hipped slate roofs. The hall behind is five bays of basalt rubble with red-brick dressings.
The building is Northern Ireland listed building HB14/06/016 (Grade B+, listed 14 August 1981). Listing URLs for Northern Ireland are not used in the Gazette list-entry field. The Presbyterian Church in Ireland has no diocese.
Further Information
- Waringstown Presbyterian Church
- Northern Ireland listed building HB14/06/016 (Grade B+)
- Stone Database NI